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______ and seeking factual information The category ‘imparting and seeking factual information’ includes the language functions speakers use to exchange information. Here language is a means to communicate new information, investigate reality, and seek facts, as well as explanations of facts.
Imparting
Expressing and finding out ______ The category ‘expressing and finding out attitudes’ includes the language functions speakers use to express their attitudes towards what they are talking about. Broadly speaking, this category corresponds to Jakobson’s emotive function.
Attitudes
______ The category ‘socialising’ refers to the use of language to establish and maintain contact with other people.
Socializing
The phatic function also includes channel checks, such as “______,” and encouragement markers, such as “Uhm,” whose purpose is to prolong communication.
Right?
The category ‘suasion’ includes the language functions speakers use to either affect the behaviour of others or to request goods and services.
Suasion
This category corresponds to Jakobson’s ______ function, namely the function whose orientation is towards the addressee, to influence her/his behaviour.
Conative
The category ‘structuring discourse’ refers to the organisation of discourse. It corresponds to Jakobson’s poetic function of language, that is, the function focusing on the message and the form it takes.
Structuring discourse
The category ‘communication of repair’ includes the language functions interactants make use of to solve problems in speaking, hearing, and understanding that may arise in conversation.
Communication of repair
In face-to-face interactions interlocutors may run into difficulties with exchanging meanings, so they draw on communicative strategies, both ______ and achievement ones, which help them in reaching a particular communicative goal.
Reduction
For instance, hearers can ask for confirmation of understanding, or for ______.
Clarification
The category is the most comprehensive one, as it includes attitudes to matters of fact; knowledge, memory and belief; emotions; and ______ attitudes.
Moral
______ such as socialising, seeking information and expressing attitudes are one of the basic language functions expected to be acquired by Spanish language students.
Macrofunctions
What is the referential function according to Jakobson?
The function whose orientation is towards the context or the referent.
Which category of macrofunctions includes attitudes to matters of fact, knowledge, memory and belief, emotions, and moral attitudes?
Expressing and finding out attitudes
What is the phatic function according to Jakobson?
The function whose focus is on the contact between the addresser and the addressee.
Which category of macrofunctions refers to the organisation of discourse?
Structuring discourse
What is the conative function according to Jakobson?
The function whose orientation is towards the addressee, to influence her/his behaviour.
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions speakers use to exchange information and investigate reality?
Imparting and seeking factual information
What is the metalingual function according to Jakobson?
The function relating to the use of language to convey information about the code.
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions speakers use to establish and maintain contact with other people?
Socializing
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions speakers use to solve problems in speaking, hearing, and understanding that may arise in conversation?
Communication repair
What is the poetic function according to Jakobson?
The function focusing on the message and the form it takes.
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions speakers use to either affect the behaviour of others or to request goods and services?
Suasion
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions speakers use to express their attitudes towards what they are talking about?
Expressing and finding out attitudes
What is the common European framework?
A document guiding the teaching of foreign languages in Europe
What are macrofunctions?
Basic language functions expected to be acquired by Spanish language students
Which function corresponds to Jakobson's referential function?
Imparting and seeking factual information
Which function corresponds to Jakobson's emotive function?
Expressing and finding out attitudes
Which function corresponds to Jakobson's phatic function?
Socializing
Which function corresponds to Jakobson's conative function?
Suasion
Which function corresponds to Jakobson's poetic function?
Structuring discourse
Which function corresponds to Jakobson's metalingual function?
Communication repair
What is the purpose of the phatic function?
To establish and maintain contact between the addresser and the addressee
What is the purpose of the suasion function?
To affect the behavior of others or to request goods and services
What is the purpose of the communication repair function?
To solve problems in speaking, hearing, and understanding that may arise in conversation
What is included in the category 'expressing and finding out attitudes'?
Attitudes to matters of fact; knowledge, memory and belief; emotions; and moral attitudes
What is the category of language functions that corresponds to Jakobson's referential function?
Imparting and seeking factual information
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions used to establish and maintain contact with other people?
Socializing
What is the category of language functions that corresponds to Jakobson's poetic function?
Structuring discourse
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions used to express attitudes towards what is being talked about?
Expressing and finding out attitudes
What is the category of language functions that corresponds to Jakobson's conative function?
Suasion
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions used to solve problems in speaking, hearing, and understanding that may arise in conversation?
Communication repair
What is the category of language functions that corresponds to Jakobson's metalingual function?
Communication repair
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions used to exchange information about the context or referent?
Imparting and seeking factual information
What is the category of language functions that corresponds to Jakobson's emotive function?
Expressing and finding out attitudes
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions used to prolong communication through channel checks and encouragement markers?
Socializing
What is the category of language functions that corresponds to Jakobson's phatic function?
Socializing
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions used to influence the behavior of others or request goods and services, including preferred and non-preferred responses?
Suasion
What is the category of macrofunctions that refers to the use of language to establish and maintain contact with other people?
Socializing
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions speakers use to either affect the behavior of others or to request goods and services?
Suasion
What is the Jakobson's function that corresponds to the category 'imparting and seeking factual information'?
Referential function
Which category of macrofunctions corresponds to Jakobson's emotive function?
Expressing and finding out attitudes
What is the Jakobson's function that corresponds to the category 'suasion'?
Conative function
Which category of macrofunctions refers to the organisation of discourse and corresponds to Jakobson's poetic function of language?
Structuring discourse
What is the Jakobson's function that corresponds to the category 'communication repair'?
Metalingual function
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions speakers use to express their attitudes towards what they are talking about?
Expressing and finding out attitudes
What is the phatic function according to Jakobson?
The use of language to establish and maintain contact with other people
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions speakers use to exchange information and investigate reality?
Imputing and seeking factual information
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions speakers use to solve problems in speaking, hearing, and understanding that may arise in conversation?
Communication repair
Which category of macrofunctions includes language functions speakers use to express good wishes on various times (e.g. festivities, birthdays, and departures)?
Socializing
Test your knowledge on imparting and seeking factual information in Spanish language with this quiz! Learn about macrofunctions and their importance in foreign language learning as per the Common European Framework. Master the basic language functions expected from Spanish language students such as socializing, seeking information and expressing attitudes. Keywords: Spanish language, macrofunctions, Common European Framework, factual information.
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